Movies You Thought Were Gonna Be Trash That You Ended Up Liking

[kittyxscratch]

I saw the movie Coc**** Bear (Censored if kids might read this)... And turns out I actually kinda liked the movie. I thought it was going to be random killing with no story or conversations and it actually had some interesting story arcs. While totally dumb and stupid I did like that movie and was surprised I actually liked it. Any movies you thought would be totally bad but turned out to enjoy at least a little bit?

[Sixtyfivekills]

Daredevil 2003.


I had it on VHS for such a long time but never watched it, and few months ago I watched it with my sister and I enjoyed it so much that I can easily say its my favorite superhero movie ever. It's edgy, campy as all hell, it has Evanescence and other bands for cool kids, its incredible.

[potato]

none, every movie i thought is gonna be trash ended up trash

[Goldias]

Sonic.
Personally don't like sonic and never consider watching it at first. Until I saw Jim carrey name.
Turns out quite enjoyable.

[WarHeRo]

boku no pico

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Hardcore Henry

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Ultraviolet (2006)
Dark Shadows (2012)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Book of Henry (2017)
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Underwater (2020)

[Xautos]

was recommended to watch some films called guardians of the galaxy, funnily enough i had a feeling i wouldn't enjoy them, and so far, i don't. bored of watching the first one shortly after everyone escaped from prison.

a tv series i didn't think i'd like called Prison Break showed on channel 5 back in the mid-2000's, i saw it and found it enjoyable to watch.

[Original Cast Recording]

Constantine

[Stingray_tm]

"The Fast and the Furious 5"
Never seen one of the other ones and me and my friend wanted to go to the movies but every other movie available was even less interesting. Yes, the movie was really dumb, but the movie knew it was dumb and absolutely rolled with it. I can't say I wasn't entertained.

"Star Trek: Beyond"
After liking the first Nu Trek movie and utterly hating the second, I was not expecting a lot. Also I knew, that the director was Justin Lin (see The Fast and the Furious 5"), the trailer included Kirk riding on a dirt bike while "Sabotage" played as score. I am not sure, why I went anyway.
I am glad, i did. It turned out, that this is clearly the best of the Kelvin-timeline movie. Not good in a "i like it regardless" way, but a genuinely good movie. What a pity, that it flopped, I would really have liked to see more Star Trek movies with that crew and that kind of script. which is probably the closest any of the movies came to capturing the feel of the tv shows.

So Justin Lin, you surprised me twice.

"Transformers"
I don't like Michael Bay movies and the Transformers movies are Bay it his worst, but the initial movie was actually a decent flick, despite some of Bays flaws. Here he clearly put some effort into the movie unlike the sequels.

[Raelic]

I think Friday the 13th 1 - 6 are actually pretty good if you like slashers. And I think that's worth a thumbs up because I feel people assume it gets stupid in the sequels earlier than it does. I mean when they introduce the Pscyhic stuff in 7, that's when it gets bad...

But 1-6 kind of had a progression to the story and mythology.

Other than that..

Grumpy Old Men
Silver Linings Playbook
All's Faire in Love
The Big Year
Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
A Walk to Remember
The Wrath of Becky
There's Something About Mary (I know... I must have been under a rock.)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the first one.
The Rundown
In & Out
Gran Torino
Witching and B******
Reign of Fire

[ナルゴ]

The first two Hellboy movies. Never read the comics books. Immediately thought to myself that it would be cringey western comic book characters ala Marvel.

I now regard Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) to be one of the best fantasy movies ever made. Great balance of production, world building, and narrative writing.
Not as good as the original LOTR trilogy, but above Harry Potter or Narnia.